[Margaret Pilkington]

More trees are needed to soak up the water.
A single tree takes something in the region of 80gallons of water out of the soil daily.
There has been a distinct lack of drain maintenance over the years and this does contribute to the problem(river dredging is important too to remove silt and maintain depth)....but we have had over one months rainfall in 24 hours(some areas have had even more)...and there is more to come.
I really do feel for those who have had their homes and their lives affected by the floods.
It takes a long time to get back to normal...to clean up the filth that is left behind once the waters subside.